US Patent Issued to Stryker on July 8 for "Patient transport apparatus with electro-mechanical braking input hold circuit" (Texas, Michigan, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,212, issued on July 8, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Patient transport apparatus with electro-mechanical braking input hold circuit" was invented by Kirby M. Neihouser (Francesville, Ind.), Lavanya Vytla (McKinney, Texas), Charles Donald Baker Jr. (Portage, Mich.), Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Nicholas Alexander (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patient transport apparatus includes a base, a patient support deck, a plurality of wheels, a plurality of brakes, and an electro-mechanical braking system. The electro-mechanical braking system includes a linkage and an electrical brak...